11.   M. Dane Waters, the president of the Initiative and Referendum Institute, sharply disputed the notion that the initiative process was being abused.

12.   Look, the initiative process in California is by its very nature a special-interest process.

13.   Not everyone feels the courts are subverting the initiative process.

14.   Opponents of the initiative process contend that the advertising often is uninformative and sometimes misleading, which results in what they say is a perversion of the democratic process.

15.   Political consultant Cerrell said he knows better than perhaps anyone that the initiative process needs more restraints.

16.   The initiative process is facing a major legal challenge as well.

17.   There have been repeated, unsuccessful attempts to bring the process to states without the initiative process, and there also are calls for a national initiative process.